{"id":3407,"date":"2011-04-21T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2011-04-21T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:44:29","slug":"man-tries-to-rob-a-store-with-a-playstation-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/man-tries-to-rob-a-store-with-a-playstation-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Tries To Rob a Store With a PlayStation Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"playstation bullet decal\" href=\"http:\/\/nerdapproved.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/playstation-bullet-decal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"playstation bullet decal\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdapproved.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/playstation-bullet-decal.jpg\" alt=\"Click To Enlarge\" width=\"311\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffA 20-year old Florida resident named Cameron Pittman woke up this  morning behind bars after he tried to rob a Sunshine Foods with a  PlayStation controller he was trying to pass off as a gun stuffed in his  pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Working from a tip, police officers caught Pittman in the act and  promptly \u201cdisarmed\u201d him. He now faces robbery and probation violation  charges.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pittman was arrested by police in St Petersburg and charged with  strong-arm robbery and violation of probation after trying to hold up  staff in the Sunshine Foods outlet.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bay 9 News, the 20-year-old hid the &#8216;Sony  Playstation remote control&#8217; (exact type unspecified; PlayStation Move  shooting attachment, perhaps?) in his pocket and pretended it was a gun.<\/p>\n<p>When police officers walked in and caught him in the act, he dropped his weapon and yielded to them.<\/p>\n<p>Mr  Pittman was apparently a suspect in a previous robbery at a Subway  restaurant in the same shopping plaza, hence the convenient arrival of  the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffA 20-year old Florida resident named Cameron Pittman woke up this morning behind bars after he tried<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}